Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Two Posts, One Day: Blog Happy



Photo by Jeff Wenzel


Another quick post. Verve was featured in the November issue of GQ, where it has been dubbed one of the ten "best places to get your daily fix." Check it out here.

Hot, Short Post

I was just checking out Sweet Maria's and stumbled across this:


For the latter half of my tenure at Luxxe, I was looking for a electric kettle with programmable temperature. We were using the Zojurishi 5.0 liter boiler, which I thought could have been better. I'm not a fan of only having three temperatures to choose from, so something like this Pino would have been great. I'm going to save up some tip money, and drive up to Oakland to grab one. For now, I'm going to buy a battery to replace the dead one in my digital thermometer and syphon up some OcaƱa.

-Ian.

Thursday, October 15, 2009

"Blogs Die Hard"

Chris told me that about three weeks ago. It's true. I've been neglectful, and as a result, my blog is dying. Hard. So let me preface this post with two things: 1) Sorry. 2) I'm going to try to update this thing twice a week. Minimum. Fingers crossed. Alright. Let us begin.
EDIT: 3) Less spelling errors.
So a few things have been going on. One of the bakers from whom Verve gets pastries, Companion Bakers, also does work at the local farmer's markets. They've been expanding from selling just baked goods to also having a coffee service. I was asked to help out with their pour-over coffee bar, and I agreed to. This was the set up: